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Female, Syrphid fly - Eristalis tenax - female
Copyright © 2019 Salvador Vitanza

Female, Syrphid fly - Eristalis tenax - Female
Nogales , Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
June 6, 2019
Size: 15.5 mm to tip of abdomen
Coordinates: 31.335309, -110.937721
Elevation: 3,932 ft
Captured on Lantana flowers
I apologize for her broken antennae

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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 6 June, 2019 - 3:25pm
Last updated 6 June, 2019 - 6:27pm

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Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Salvador Vitanza, 6 June, 2019 - 4:51pm login or register to post comments

Eristalis tenax .... female.
Eristalis tenax .... female. R4+5 strongly looped and combined with the
R1 and R2+3 veins meeting before wing margin to form a stalk = Eristalis.
Facial stripe broad; eyes with two stripes of darker hairs; thorax somewhat pollinose; hind leg with ventral surface of femur and dorsal and ventral surface of tibia with long matted dark hairs; posterior margins of tergites 2 and 3 orange = tenax.
… Bill Dean, 6 June, 2019 - 4:45pm login or register to post comments

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